English Test #2
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- Oedipus Complex
- Freud - Feature of Freud's sexual theory: the desire to kill you dad and have sex with your mom - no relationship is as strong as one's relationship with mother, - ones libido is repressed leads to rivalry with father - have to get rid of dad to have sex with mom,
- Archetype
- part of theory of the collective unconcious - jung- recurrent patterns foound in stories, myths, and dream (i.e. religion) Gods in diffrent cultures that had not contact (we all share underlying concious)
- Sexual desire
- Freud - always present and comes in different stages - oral and genital
- Poet Quote
- Everywhere I go, I find the poet has been there before me. - FREUD section
- Different
- Writing an essay is ______. "Form follows function" - Louis Henry Sullivand
- Zinger
- always end your conclusion with a zinger - could be a variety of things
- Marx: what drives human behavior?
- class tension drives human behavior
- Hammer and Sickle
- Represents Communism and the Working Class
- Herald
- Person who gives message to the hero in the archetype of the quest
- Topic Sentences
- Supporting arguments become these in body paraphs; should appear at the beginning of the paragraph usually
- Stalin on government
- Government shoud be arbitrary: people will be terrorized into following the rules - ppl were afraid to be the first to stop clapping at one of his speeches
- Marxist: Harp symbolizes:
- the arts, which are very poweful in shaping people's attitudes
- Libido
- Freud - drives human behavior - lust is the steam that drives human behavior; libido doesn't become genital until adolescence
- Proletariat
- Marxist - Working class - workers - industrial revolution Marxist; bourgeoisise vs. proletarait
- Supporting Arguments
- These back up the thesis and become topic sentences in body paragraphs.
- Karl Marx
- Father of Communism: GERMAN Historian: mid 19th century - history is made up by CLASS CONFLICT - thought it was necessary for brougeoisie to give up power to have armed revolution; wrote two books
- Freudian School of Literary Criticism
- Based on ideas/theories of Sigmund Freud: PSYCHOLOGY, FREE ASSOCIATION, DREAM INTERPRETATION, PSYCHOTHERAPY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THEORY OF THE UNCONCIOUS, SEXUAL THEORY, LIBIDO, SUBLIMATION, DELAYED GRATIFICATION, OEDIPUS COMPLEX, PHALLIC SYMBOL, PHALLUS, CASTRATION FANTASY
- Feminist: what drives human behavior?
- Gender roles drive human behavior
- Proudhan
- FRENCH PHILOSOPHER: violence leads to power --> "Property is theft" - part of Marxist literary interpretation - there is some sort of original injustice in the fact that some people have advantages over others
- Archetype of the Quest
- jung - part of the collective unconcious - the most important of the archetypes - Background:- Spiritual quest is not necessarily religious - has to do with the sense that somehow life is missing a piece - unfulfilled; -"The kingdom of God is within you" - Bible - Gospel of Luke; - Gospel of Thomas - "The kingdom of God is spread upon the earth"; -Jung was influenced by these sacred texts of Buddhists, Hindus; Freud thought these things were nonsense à everything is about sex - he those mediation for substitute for sex
- Return
- Generally the shortest phase, brngs back the boon, which heals or fixes the problem
- 1889
- La Belle Epoque date
- Dream Interpretaion
- Freud - another tool of psychotherapy, dreams are messages from the unconcious mind to the concious mind
- Bourgeoisie
- Marxist - middle class during feudal times - part of Marxist School of Literary Criticism; with the industrial revolution bourgeoisie becomes the upper class
- Free Associaiton
- (a.k.a. the Talking Cure) - Freud - tool of psychotherapy - patient is lying down and psychologists sits behind them - free association, mind association, lets the mind water - discover origins of emotions and problems
- Freud: what drives human behavior?
- Our libido drives human behavior
- Delayed Gratification
- Freud - Delaying the expression of our libido (civilization says to wait and try to ignore the hormones until a "proper time": put off pleasure and sexual desire until you achieve other goals), therefore sublimating the libido and our expression comes out in other forms - through football and other sports, even religion, etc. ; libido doesn't become gential until adolescence
- Feminist
- Empowerment of women: after WWI 1921 - women get the right to vote --> suffragist movement; WWII: women went to work when their husbands went to war (Rosie the Riveter); late sixties/early seventies Rise of Women's Liberation movement - "biology is destiny"
- Jung's theory
- he rejected the Sexual theory and expaned the theory of the Unoncious
- Carl Gustav Jung
- born in switzerland; became owner of large sanitarian; heard about Freud; became his protege; Freud saw Jung as his way of carrying on his teachings into the next generation; everything was hunkydory until something happened (Freud should have seen this coming) Freud was on a train when he got a letter that Jung was breaking away (killing the father figure in a sense) and developing his own theory
- Topic --> Thesis
- Topic is the ____.
- Psychotherapy
- Freud - Therapy of the mind
- Sublimation
- Freud - when we do not get to express our libido - is repressed into the unconcious
- Capitalism
- Marxist - some people control large amounts of money - resulted form industrial revolution when Bourgeoisie had the opporunity to make money so there was an accumulation of wealth - but the Proletariat was still oppressed becuase upper class did not want to give up their wealth
- Socialist Realism
- Stalin (Marxist) - arts were glorified in Communism - APPROVED STYLE OF ART - people depicted working together and cooperating
- Boon
- Hero gains this after defeating the enemy in the crucial encounter
- Three Phases of the Archetype of the Quest
- Departure, Encounter, Return
- Nothing
- First word of waiting of Godot
- Departure
- stage of the archetype of the quest in which the hero is introduced ,
- Das Kapital
- Book by Karl Marx - analyzes class conflict: SURPLUS VALUE THEORY;
- Phallus
- Freud - object shaped like a penis; image of an erected penis
- Engels
- Wrote Communist Manifesto with Marx
- Phallic Symbol
- Freud - symbol of an errection i.e. beanstalk
- Marxist: Hen represents:
- the means of production
- Louis Henry Sullivan
- Who said, "Form follows function"
- Transition sentence
- If the supporting argument/topic sentence doesn't "work" you should use a _______.
- Surplus Value Theory
- Karl Marx's theory - What given asn object its value? surplus value is inflated value (kind of like a tax) - Proletariat gave objecft its value - raw materials and the labor = ten cents, but then the Capitalists sell it for 20 cents - (workers get ripped off and the Capitalists continue oppressing with the money they gain)
- Encounter
- the longest stage; passes through a land of dangers and delights and is protected by some kind of amulet --> lucky charm; guides; misdireted - crucial encounter -
- Straw Man technique
- crticize, then use pivot word to change the course
- Thesis restatement; foregone conclusion
- Conclusion shoud contain:
- Tom Lehrer
- wrote a song about oedipus
- Descriptive
- (pertaining to Jack and the Beanstalk and feminism) - describes society as it is (17th century when women couldn't work)
- George Bernard SHAW
- "Communism, like Christianity, is a good idea that should be tried sometime."
- Stalin
- Marxist - when the first communist revolution took place in RUSSIA he realized he needed to seize control of the arts as they influence people's attitudes about things: SOCIALIST REALISM
- Castration Fantasy
- Freud - if dad is in the way to getting mom "put him out of commission" - snip snip
- Sigmund Freud
- From VIENNA, AUSTRIA, "Father of Psychoanalysis"
- Crucial Encounter
- when the hero encounters the enemy
- Pivot Word
- Used in the introduction of an essay - yet, however, but
- So what?
- Conclusion shoudl answer the question: ____.
- Allusion
- reference to something else that depends on the reader's knowledge
- Communist Manifesto
- Book by Karl Marx (with Engels) - calling for proletariat revolution - "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."
- Schools of Literary Criticism
- Schools = trends (like school of fish); used to interpret: what does the story mean? What does the story convey?; evaluate: How does the story convey these things?; and analyze: How well does it do what it sets out to do?
- Jungian Literary School of Criticism
- School of Criticism based on the ideas of Carl Gustav Jung
- Siberia
- Place where Stalin sent people when they did not cooperate with working - freezing cold wasteland
- Theory of the Unconcious
- Freud's theory - said the mind is like an iceburg (1/7 is concious and 6/7 is unconcious) - trauma comes from childhood experiences and by being aware (using fre association and talking) the unconcious mind can heal the concious
- Prescriptive
- (pertaining to feminist analysis of Jack and the Beanstalk) - But if you keep telling the children this, it's what they come to believe - says how society should be
- Industrial Revolution
- Marxist - Bourgeoisie had an opportunity to make money; rise of CAPITALISM; accumulation of capital (wealth); PROLETARIAT (workers) are still oppressed: upper class does not want to give up wealth
- Sexual Theory
- Freud's theory - libido drives human behavior (lust is the steam that drives human behavior)
- details, facts, figures, and anecdotes
- Topic sentences are supported by sentences containing information such as....
- Theory of the Collective Unconcious
- Jung - theory that everyone has concious and unconcious mind, but on a deeper level we are all "one" and ashre the same mind, therefore, we are not just contained within one person, wthin the collecitve unconcious there are archetypes - i.e. american dream
- Communism
- founded by Karl Marx - government in which people have no representation
- Class Conflict
- Marxist - history is made up by this (Karl Marx believed this)
- The Troublesome Jews
- Freud, Marx, Einstein
- Psychology
- Freud - Study of the mind (psych = mind; ology = study of)
- Topic --> thesis, supporting arguments, body paragraphs, introduction paragraph, conclusion
- How to write an essay order:
- Marxism begins to enter literary criticism
- Middle of the 20th century
- La Belle Epoque
- "the Beautiful time": 1889
- Marxist
- School of Literary Criticism named for Karl Marx: elements of this school: history is made up by class conflict (upper vs. lower class); Feudal system (barons own the land and peasants work the land); lower class should be oppressed PROLETARIAT, CAPITALISM, BOURGEOISIE, COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, DAS KAPITAL, SURPLUS VALUE THEORY; wanted a classless society; hammer and sickle - represents communism and working class